2. We jotted down important events on post it notes.

Reading Workshop Pictures

Click here to see pictures of PS 261's Character Parade: Halloween 2008. We all dressed up as our favorite book characters!

Book Clubs Book Clubs are a great way to share what we know and get a deeper understanding of characters,  problems, and solutions.  Students write the answers to "thick" questions in their reading journals.  They share and discuss their answers with their book buddies.

1.  We read biographies in class and at home.

3. We taped our post-its in our Reading Response journal

4. We then made a biography timeline with the important events from our journals

5. Completed biography timeline!